1. Sudden death caused by Staphylococcus aureus carrying Panton-Valentine leukocidin gene in a young girl
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Isabelle Poilane, Joël Gaudelus, Jerome Etienne, Thanh-Van Trieu, Loïc de Pontual, Anne Marie Teychene, Anne Colignon, and Sophie Lefevre
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Immune status ,Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Leukocidin ,General Medicine ,respiratory system ,biochemical phenomena, metabolism, and nutrition ,bacterial infections and mycoses ,medicine.disease ,medicine.disease_cause ,Sudden death ,Article ,Microbiology ,Pneumonia ,Staphylococcus aureus ,bacteria ,Medicine ,Girl ,Panton–Valentine leukocidin ,skin and connective tissue diseases ,business ,Gene ,media_common - Abstract
Staphylococcus aureus carrying the Panton–Valentine leukocidin (PVL) gene could be the source of both recurrent furunculosis or abscesses and severe infections, mainly necrotising pneumonia. We present the case of a young girl from consanguineous parents who died suddenly. The postmortem examination revealed necrotising pneumonia due to a PVL producing Staphylococcus aureus strain, raising the question of the role of the host’s immune status in this infection.
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- 2009
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